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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sinless manner; innocently.

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  • adverb In a sinless way; without sin.

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Examples

  • It all started when Susan V., she of that sinlessly delicious blog, made croquettes with Thai flavors using pumpkin as a base for these little morsels.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Nupur 2007

  • However, God was not willing that any should perish, and so, in order to fulfil the requirements of justice (i.e. that our sin must be punished, our fine paid), Jesus was sent to us (indeed, He came willingly) to call us to repentance and offer to pay our penalty for us, since He alone could live sinlessly (as He was both God and man).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Unequivocally, he states," The civil rulers execute, justly and sinlessly, pestiferous men in order to protect the peace of the state."

    Texas Faith: Are Texans immoral for supporting the death penalty? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2008

  • Only when dealing with Roman Catholic opposition does Gillette resort to casuistry; i.e., the vasectomized Catholic "may go to confession, repent, and, while remaining sterile, copulate sinlessly for the rest of his life," whereas those using other forms of contraception commit mortal sin with every sex act.

    Short Reviews Editors, The 1972

  • God-consciousness which developed to an absolute strength, i.e., from the manifestation in history of a sinlessly developed human perfection, which is seen in the person of the Redeemer.

    The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith" 1862-1929 1911

  • She did not reflect that the daily love and duty due to others cannot be sinlessly withheld, or given to some object of our own particular choice, or that such a selfish idolatry is a domestic crime.

    The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • _ It is not necessary for us to be sinlessly perfect, or to be raised to a special dignity of privilege and endowment, in order to wield this wondrous weapon of power with God; but it _is_ necessary that we be men and women of prayer -- habitual, believing, importunate prayer.

    George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874

  • We stand sinlessly stark-naked in effulgence of the Christlight,

    The Heptalogia Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • Then there is the recoil from 'the cup,' which natural instinct could not but feel, though sinlessly.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • And there are numbers of people in our Nonconformist communities especially, where that doctrine of conversion is most distinctly preached, whose growth is stopped by the abuse that they make of it in fancying if they have once exercised faith in Jesus Christ they may safely and sinlessly stand still.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

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